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Originally Posted by eva02
Does the 20 million figure include all the people covered by Medicaid expansion of certain states. The reason Obamacare failed is because private insurance companies set their premiums and not enough healthy people signed up to offset the sick. Now as more people sign up premiums are supposed to go down this year and insuraers are going to see profit. Republicans did not want to work with obama to help fix the massive law and it is an act of genius that it works as well as it does in its current state.
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Yes. It seems like a lot of individuals who got plans through the market place were "sicker" and "unhealthier" for the most part and thus result in more and more claims. Now what the Republicans are absolutely opposed to is the individual mandate. Trump recently said that he supports the part of the law that says you can't be denied due to pre-existing conditions. Now think about the last two things I just said. Now lets say they change the law and get rid of the mandate but keep the part that says insurers can't deny due to pre-existing condition.
They would basically be discouraging healthy people to sign up (less revenues/premiums for insurance companies) at the same time insurance companies wouldn't be able to turn away unhealthy people with pre-existing conditions!! And you are spot on about the timing/cyclical nature of Obamacare. It has to be kept around and just changed rather than repeal the whole damn law. This is going to be Trump's entire first term on top of that they will be working with immigration, corporate tax reform, deregulation etc. How the hell will they find the time????